The Orion Nebula as seen from KPNO

bwillman| November 18, 2010

Check out this color image of the Orion Nebula that Tim Douglas (’11) constructed from images obtained by Annie Preston (’12) and Emily Cunningham (’12). They obtained their observations at 5 am one night (in terrible observing conditions!) over Fall break with the S2KB camera on the 0.9m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Tim (and everyone else in our Observational Astronomy class) used IDL take the raw telescope data and turn it into nice, 3-color images: